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With "a texas twist." >> day by day, inch by inch, kristene chapa walked a steady, if uneven, road to recovery. >> i couldn't move my left side. i couldn't move my hand or my arm, my legs. i had to relearn to swallow. >> you don't give up, do you? >> i don't. i try to stay motivated. >> so did detective roland chavez. he, too, was making progress. the cigarette butts and drink can collected from the crime scene had just given him his first major break in the case. >> what did the dna show? >> the dna showed that it returned to dylan spellman. >> who was dylan spellman? police learned he lived ...

As for the confidential details in the letter. >> this is small town texas, there's any number of places this information could have come from. >> what about the lab report showing strickland's gun matching the shell casings found at the scene. >> we had our expert that said it is inconclusive. i mean there's no way that you can say for sure. >> police, they said, should never have taken their sights off the real shooting. >> well, they had the right guy. >> dylan spellman, you think that's the killer? >> he's a better match than my boy. >> he had just failed a polygraph exam and then started ...

The missing pieces. detective aaron veuleman had been working the case. and now he took the lead. >> what we first wanted to do was expand the scope of the crime scene search because we -- there was one crucial piece of evidence that we didn't have at that point, which was a murder weapon. >> reporter: veulman hoped the murder weapon might definitively link spellman to the shootings. >> what'd that turn up? >> we didn't find anything. nothing of value. >> so you're back to kinda nowhere. >> that's right. >> and then? >> we received a phone call from the investigators at the sinton police depar...

That this kind of information could have come from. >> but what about the lab report showing strickland's gun matching the shell casings found at the scene? >> we had our expert, who said that it's inconclusive. there's no way you could say for sure. >> police, they said, should never have taken their sights off the real shooter. >> well, they had the right guy. >> dylan spellman? you think that's the killer? >> he's a better match than my boy. >> he had just failed a polygraph exam and then started trying to plea bargain. >> this is a guy that kicked in a door with a group of people, wearing ...

Her and mollie as "girl one" and "girl two." >> he used numbers in that other crime? >> yes. >> they referred to each other by number in that particular crime. >> reporter: the similarities between the two crimes didn't end there. >> in the nevada home invasion, were the victims bound? >> yes, they were. >> he's gotta be number one on the list at this point. >> he -- he definitely jumped to the -- to the top. >> reporter: by that time, dylan spellman had already returned to nevada to begin serving his three-year sentence. so chavez hopped a plane to las vegas, hoping to hear what mr. spellman ...